PAWS OFF OUR CHILDREN
If your loved one is missing, in crisis, or has been found unalive—you are not alone. This space was created from lived experience, deep loss, and enduring love. PAWS OFF exists to help families navigate grief, confusion, and advocacy with compassion, faith, and truth.
If Your Loved One Is Missing
Our Foundation
Who We Are
The Jeremiah Ezekiel Porchia Foundation – PAWS OFF is a faith-centered, community-driven movement rooted in Porchia's and Wingate's Sovereignty (P.A.W.S.). We exist to help families protect their bloodlines and preserve generational purpose by confronting predators, mental illness, systemic neglect, exploitation, and every threat that seeks to harm our children.
PAWS OFF was established in honor of Jeremiah Ezekiel Porchia, whose life and legacy ignited a call to action to ensure no family walks alone and no child is forgotten. This foundation was born not from theory, but from walking through systems that failed, navigating mental health crises, and enduring the unthinkable. We stand with families in their darkest hours because we have been there ourselves.
Every family deserves compassionate support when facing the unimaginable. Every child deserves to be protected, remembered, and honored. PAWS OFF transforms grief into guidance, pain into purpose, and loss into a lifeline for families who need someone to walk beside them through the valley.
"Protecting Our Bloodlines. Empowering Families. Demanding Accountability."
PAWS OFF was built from lived experience, not theory. We understand the confusion, the silence, the weight of questions without answers. We know what it means to feel alone in a system that should protect but often fails.
Our Core Focus Areas
PAWS OFF addresses the full spectrum of threats facing our children and families. We believe in comprehensive protection that honors both the physical and spiritual needs of every household. Our approach combines advocacy, education, faith-centered support, and unwavering accountability.
Bloodline Protection & Child Safety
Safeguarding children and families from predators, exploitation, abuse, and generational harm through education and community awareness.
Mental Health Awareness & Intervention
Addressing mental illness through education, faith-centered support, and connecting families to community resources that provide real help.
Family Advocacy & Sovereignty Support
Empowering families to advocate, govern, and protect their households with wisdom, authority, and the tools they need to succeed.
Accountability & Transparency
Demanding ethical practices, clear communication, and justice from systems entrusted with public safety and our children's wellbeing.
Faith, Healing & Restoration
Covering families spiritually while restoring identity, purpose, and hope through prayer, scripture, and community support.
In Loving Memory
Jeremiah's Legacy
Jeremiah Ezekiel Porchia was deeply loved. His life mattered. His absence is felt every day. Jeremiah was a gentle, driven, and compassionate young man who cared deeply about improving the lives of others. He volunteered in his community, worked a job, operated his own business, and poured his heart into sports. He was thoughtful, sensitive, and hopeful—a son who tried to show up for others even when he was struggling himself.
Before the most visible crisis in his life, Jeremiah experienced profound loss. He lost loved ones—losses that weighed on him quietly while he continued to show up for others. During this season, Jeremiah recognized his own vulnerability and did something meaningful: he asked for a mentor. Four months before his expulsion from Scott High School, Jeremiah told his mother that he needed guidance and support. This request was not weakness—it was awareness. He was reaching for stability, for someone to walk beside him through the storm.
Following his expulsion, a community leader offered Jeremiah visibility through a media interview. His family agreed in hopes that this connection would lead to mentorship and consistent guidance, especially given the absence of a steady father figure in his life. Once the cameras were off, that support did not continue. For a young man already navigating grief, identity disruption, and rejection, this moment of abandonment carried weight that compounded everything he was already carrying.
Two years ago, Jeremiah was falsely accused at Scott High School in Toledo of possessing a gun and inciting violence. School officials expelled him, misrepresented his academic standing, and pressed charges. After legal counsel was obtained, it was revealed that school officials had lied—but the damage had already been done. The loss of school, routine, and the opportunity to graduate took a heavy toll on a young man who had already been struggling.
What followed was a visible mental and emotional decline. Jeremiah spent time in psychiatric care and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia. Over the past year, his family loved him, advocated for him, and watched him struggle. Jeremiah was not violent. He was not disposable. He was a son.
Two days after being pulled from the water lifeless, his story now carries a sacred responsibility—to help others survive what his family has endured. PAWS OFF honors Jeremiah by turning grief into guidance, pain into purpose, and loss into a lifeline for other families walking this road. This website exists to say clearly: Jeremiah mattered. His life mattered. His story matters.
Our Programs & Initiatives
PAWS OFF provides comprehensive support for families at every stage of crisis and grief. We meet families where they are—in the early hours of panic when someone goes missing, in the shock and silence after devastating news, and in the long journey of healing that follows. These programs were designed from lived experience to address the real needs families face when systems fail and support disappears.
If Your Loved One Is Missing
Immediate guidance for families navigating the early hours and days when a loved one is missing. We provide practical steps, emotional support, and clarity during the most confusing and frightening moments. You don't have to figure this out alone.
  • First 24-48 hours action steps
  • Who to contact and when
  • Documenting and organizing information
  • Managing family stress during crisis
If Your Loved One Was Found Unalive
Compassionate support for families processing shock, grief, and unanswered questions. There is no timeline for grief, and we walk with you through the immediate aftermath and beyond, without pressure or judgment. This page gently supports families through emotional and spiritual shock, navigating questions that may never have answers.
  • Understanding immediate shock responses
  • Finding language when words are hard
  • Navigating systems and processes
  • Grief without timelines or expectations
When Support Disappears
A critical resource for families whose loved ones experienced promised mentorship without follow-through, public exposure without sustained care, or repeated rejection after asking for help. We help families name the emotional impact of abandonment, understand how rejection compounds trauma, and respond with support rather than silence.
  • Recognizing patterns of abandonment
  • Understanding compounded trauma
  • Supporting without enabling
  • Protecting other vulnerable youth
Family Advocacy & Crisis Response
Advocacy and guidance for families feeling unheard or dismissed during crisis. We help you navigate institutional processes, understand your rights, and find your voice when systems become overwhelming or unresponsive.
Mental Health & Grief Support
Faith-informed mental health awareness and grief navigation rooted in compassion. We address the realities of mental illness, trauma, and decline while honoring the spiritual dimension of healing and restoration.
Standing for Justice
Advocacy & Accountability
PAWS OFF advocates for families navigating grief, confusion, and silence after institutional failure or broken promises of support. We believe that every family deserves to be heard, every child deserves protection, and every system entrusted with public safety must be held accountable for their actions and promises.
Our advocacy is rooted in lived experience. We know what it feels like to be dismissed, to have your concerns minimized, to watch systems fail the people you love most. We stand with families to demand better—not from a place of anger, but from a place of unwavering commitment to protecting our children and preserving their dignity.

Mentorship Accountability Statement
PAWS OFF believes that mentorship carries responsibility. When a child or young adult opens themselves to guidance—especially publicly—follow-through matters. Rejection after vulnerability can deepen trauma and reinforce isolation. A young person who asks for help and receives promises of support should not be left to wonder why they weren't worth the follow-through.
We call on community leaders, organizations, and mentors to honor their commitments beyond visibility and momentary attention. If you offer to mentor, show up. If you invite a vulnerable youth into the public eye, provide sustained care. If you cannot commit, say so from the beginning with honesty and respect.
Accountability is not about blame. It is about integrity, consistency, and care. Our children deserve mentors who see them as more than photo opportunities or temporary projects. They deserve people who will walk with them through the hard seasons, not just the highlight reels.
When systems fail, when promises are broken, when families are left to navigate impossible situations alone—PAWS OFF steps in. We provide advocacy support, help families understand their rights, connect them with resources, and ensure their voices are heard. We believe in transparency, ethical practices, and justice for every family who has been failed by institutions that should have protected them.
Get Involved
This movement is bigger than one family. PAWS OFF exists because of community—people who choose to give, serve, speak up, and protect our children together. Every contribution, whether time, resources, or voice, helps us reach more families in crisis and build stronger protection for the next generation.
Volunteer Your Time
Join our team of compassionate advocates who walk with families through crisis. Whether you have a few hours a month or can commit to ongoing support, your presence makes a difference.
Become a Community Ambassador
Represent PAWS OFF in your neighborhood, workplace, or faith community. Help us spread awareness about mental health, child protection, and the importance of accountability in mentorship.
Partner as an Organization
Churches, schools, and community organizations can partner with PAWS OFF to provide support, resources, and safe spaces for families in crisis. Together we are stronger.
Ways to Help
Every gift matters. Every hour of service counts. Every voice raised for accountability makes a difference. Join us in turning tragedy into transformation and grief into guidance for families who need us most.
Support Our Mission
Donate to PAWS OFF
Your giving helps sustain advocacy efforts, community education, family support programs, and Jeremiah's legacy. Every donation—whether $5 or $500—provides critical resources for families facing the unimaginable. We operate with transparency and integrity, ensuring that every dollar goes directly toward supporting families in crisis and protecting our children.
Donations fund emergency family assistance, mental health resources, advocacy support, community education programs, and the operational costs of maintaining a responsive, compassionate foundation. When you give to PAWS OFF, you become part of a movement that transforms grief into guidance and ensures no family walks alone.
Your support allows us to:
  • Provide immediate crisis support to families with missing loved ones
  • Offer grief counseling and mental health resources
  • Advocate for families facing institutional failures
  • Educate communities about child protection and mental health
  • Honor Jeremiah's legacy through meaningful action
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We are deeply grateful for every person who chooses to stand with us. Your generosity creates pathways to healing for families in their darkest hours and builds protection for children who need advocates who won't give up. Thank you for believing in this mission and honoring Jeremiah's legacy through your support.
Our Vision & Mission
PAWS OFF was born from a mother's love and a family's loss. Every program we offer, every family we support, every advocacy effort we undertake flows from the understanding that comes only through lived experience. We have walked through systems that failed, navigated mental health crises without adequate support, and endured the unthinkable loss of a beloved son. This foundation exists to ensure no other family has to navigate these moments alone.
Our Vision
A world where families navigating loss are met with compassion, clarity, and support—and where children are protected in life, crisis, and legacy. We envision communities where mental health is addressed with understanding, where accountability is the standard, and where no child is forgotten or dismissed.
Our Mission
To support families experiencing the loss of a loved one who is missing or unalive by providing guidance, advocacy, faith-centered encouragement, and pathways to healing—while honoring the lives that matter. We turn grief into guidance and pain into purpose.
Our Values
Rooted in Porchia's and Wingate's Sovereignty (P.A.W.S.), we believe in protecting bloodlines, empowering families, demanding accountability, honoring faith, and ensuring every child's life and legacy matters. Compassion guides everything we do.
Protecting Our Bloodlines
We believe that family sovereignty is sacred. Every household has the right and responsibility to protect their children from predators, exploitation, systemic neglect, and generational harm. PAWS OFF equips families with the knowledge, resources, and support they need to safeguard their bloodlines and preserve generational purpose.
Empowering Families
Families are not powerless. Even in the midst of crisis, grief, and systemic failure, families have authority, voice, and the capacity to advocate for their loved ones. We empower families to stand strong, speak truth, and demand the accountability and support their children deserve.
"This website is a living testimony. Jeremiah's life matters. Our children matter. Every family deserves compassion, every child deserves protection, and every system entrusted with our children's wellbeing must be held accountable."
Connect With Us
Contact PAWS OFF
Whether you need immediate support, have questions about our programs, want to volunteer, or simply need someone who understands—we are here. PAWS OFF exists to walk with families through their darkest hours and to ensure no one navigates loss, grief, or advocacy alone. Your story matters. Your loved one matters. We are listening.
Reach Out Today
If your loved one is missing or has been found unalive, please don't hesitate to contact us. We respond with compassion, without judgment, and without timelines. There is no "right" time to reach out—we are here whenever you need us.
For partnership inquiries, volunteer opportunities, or general questions about PAWS OFF, we welcome your connection. Together we can build stronger protection for our children and better support for families in crisis.
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The Jeremiah Ezekiel Porchia Foundation – PAWS OFF is more than an organization. It is a living testimony born from love, sustained by faith, and dedicated to ensuring that every family has the support they need and every child's life is honored and remembered. Jeremiah's legacy continues through every family we serve, every child we protect, and every system we hold accountable.
This website is a living testimony. Jeremiah's life matters. Our children matter.